The Bebe Rexhafication of Kim Petras on Feed the Beast (with Vulture's Jason P. Frank) (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Patreon episode, Vulture's Jason P Frank joins PP:AA to discuss Kim Petras' first major label studio album, Feed the Beast, which dropped Friday. Louie and Jason address the album's shortcomings as it attempts to find a broader audience for Kim, the few things that work on the record, how Kim's music has ended up in this disappointing place, and what they hope the failure of this record on a commercial and critical level might mean in terms of a reset for Kim's career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louis here, just dropping a preview of our latest Pop Pantheon All Access episode, |
| 0:04.6 | which is a conversation between me and Vultures Jason P. Frank about Kim Petrus's new album, |
| 0:10.7 | Feed the Beast, which dropped last Friday. If you enjoy this little snippet and you want to hear |
| 0:15.9 | the rest of the episode, you can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon or click the link in the show notes of this episode. All right, I'm back once again with Jason P. Frank of Vulture. Jason, hi. Welcome back. Thank you for emphasizing the P. I really don't want it to be missed. I wouldn't miss it. If you tell me what to call you, I'm going to call you that. Like, that is just, you know, how I feel about people. What a gentleman. What a gentleman. I believe people when they tell me who they are. All right. So we're here today once again to talk about Kim Petrus, maybe to your chagrin. I don't totally know. But, um, yeah, you do. You totally They don't know what we were just talking about. The subject of our previous main feed episode of the show, who dropped her debut record, obviously, this past Friday, Feed the Beast, an album that I believe begs the question. |
| 1:06.6 | Is Ava Max a aspirational figure in pop music right now? |
| 1:11.6 | I'm asking. |
| 1:13.5 | Apparently, yeah, apparently she is. |
| 1:15.9 | I mean, she is in some ways successful and in other ways. |
| 1:20.2 | Is she? |
| 1:21.1 | So bland. |
| 1:22.4 | I mean, I don't know. |
| 1:23.4 | I don't know her chart statistics off the top of my head. |
| 1:26.0 | And that's a sign that she's not, I guess, because I know everybody's chart statistics off the top of my head. |
| 1:32.6 | Let's see. |
| 1:33.1 | How many top ten songs does she have? |
| 1:35.3 | None from this recent album, I don't think. |
| 1:37.3 | That's why I'm asking you's question to get us here because I'm kind of like, this record, I think, has been noted by a lot of people that have |
| 1:44.6 | written about it, including obviously Shod DeSuz's review in Pitchfork, has sort of pointed to |
| 1:50.4 | what you brought up at the beginning of our episode, which is when you referred to the |
| 1:53.9 | BB Rexification of Kim Petras. |
| 1:56.6 | And this record, I think, pretty much unfortunately, like, lives up to that idea or, like, |
| 2:03.3 | maybe is like the, hopefully the apex or the peak of that trend in Kim Petrus's, like, |
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